Cambridge Judge Business School Discussions on Economics & Policy

Survival of the most adaptable - how the recession can lead to a change for the better: As the global recession sinks into becoming a deepening global depression, and new financial measures such as "quantitative easing" are brought in to try and stabilise markets, Judge Business School's podcast series has been talking to its academics to find out how business can best cope with the changing financial climate it now finds itself in. Boni Sones reports on this positive advice from the experts. The Producer is Aislinn Ryan.

Survival of the most adaptable - how the recession can lead to a change for the better: As the global recession sinks into becoming a deepening global depression, and new financial measures such as "quantitative easing" are brought in to try and stabilise markets, Judge Business School's podcast series has been talking to its academics to find out how business can best cope with the changing financial climate it now finds itself in. Boni Sones reports on this positive advice from the experts. The Producer is Aislinn Ryan.

Senator Yves Leterme, Former Prime Minister of Belgium, compares the Anglo-Saxon and the Rhineland models of socio-economic development. The current economic crisis, he believes, stems from an overpurification of neo-liberalism, which saw many economies move from over-regulation, to de-regulation, to self-regulation to non-regulation. The cure? A blending of the best of the Anglo-Saxon and Rhineland systems. Senator Leterme explains how.

According to Michael Kitson, the recession will be deeply protracted and U-shaped, leaving permanent scars on the economy in the form of lost economic capacity. The financial sector will not fully recover to be as significant a share of the economy as it was pre-shock; the adverse effect on long-term investment will reduce productive capacity in the future and the country will not be allowed to draw in as much import as previously. The challenge, he explains, will be to produce strategies to replace this lost capacity.

It all began with the collapse of the sub-prime housing market in America, and the rest, as they say, is now history. The 2008 and 2009 recession saw consumption fall for the first time in 20 years, and that slow-down in America spread to countries as far apart as the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, China, India and New Zealand. However, while some were officially in recession having experienced two consecutive quarters of negative growth, others such as India and China avoided it. Australia even managed positive growth. All year experts at Cambridge Judge Business School have been offering advice to those affected by the "slump". Here Boni Sones reviews what they said.

It all began with the collapse of the sub-prime housing market in America, and the rest, as they say, is now history. The 2008 and 2009 recession saw consumption fall for the first time in 20 years, and that slow-down in America spread to countries as far apart as the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, China, India and New Zealand. However, while some were officially in recession having experienced two consecutive quarters of negative growth, others such as India and China avoided it. Australia even managed positive growth. All year experts at Cambridge Judge Business School have been offering advice to those affected by the "slump". Here Boni Sones reviews what they said.

Michael Kitson warns we need to develop industries with long term potential for growth.

Robert Prechter offers a new explanation of why markets perform as they do.

Crisis, what crisis? Greece is not alone when it comes to debts and the Eurozone says Dr Christos Pitelis.

Member of The Council for Science and Technology Professor Alan Hughes explains why despite anticipated cuts in scientific funding, the future for science research in the UK has an excellent outlook